Summary: I. French newsreel item showing a parachute, probably a message, dropping from a kite balloon near Chalais Mendon, Western Front, June 1917.
II. French newsreel item showing General Berthelot, head of the French military mission to Rumania, talking with officers then going on to meet the King and Prince Carol at a station, probably Bucharest, June 1917.
III. French newsreel item showing General Lyautey with his escort visiting the Sultan of Morocco at his palace in Rabat, June 1917.
IV. French newsreel item of refugees returning to territory re-occupied after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, Western Front, June 1917.
V. French newsreel item showing a regiment of 42nd Division receiving a unit citation. Other units receive fanion decorations. The division marches past. Western Front, June 1917.
Description: An old soldier chats to an elderly woman refugee who has returned home and is using stones and rubble to repair her house. More refugees return by horse and cart. One couple begins to weed a garden, and old men start carpentry work and roof repairs.
Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Berthelot, Henri Mathias (person)
Carol II, King of Romania (person)
Carol, Prince of Romania (person)
Lyautey, Louis Hubert (person)
Yusef, Sultan of Morocco (person)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army, Div 42 (regiment/service)
Keywords: communications, French military - message: parachute drop (object name)
aircraft, French - balloon: observation kite balloon (object name)
delegations, French international - military (object name)
delegations, French Imperial - military (object name)
buildings, Moroccan - institutional: palace (object name)
refugees, French - return (object name)
ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name)
01/3(4-15).7 (event)
31/3(498) (event)
31/3(64) (event)
01/3(4-15).7 (event)
01/3(4-15).7 (event)
Chalais Mendon, Marne, France (geography)
Rumania & Bucharest <railway station> (geography)
Morocco & Rabat <palace> (geography)
Somme, France (geography)
France (geography)
Age (concept)
